
Peter Singer: Is the animal rights movement unstoppable?
The Interview
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The Importance of Animal Liberation
I want people to see the analogies between those racism, sexism and speciesism. I felt that at the time the first book came out, issues about animals were just not taken as serious moral questions at all. And I do think that I and the animal movement have succeeded in making people recognize that these are serious moral issues. They're building 26 story buildings that are just full of pigs who of course never leave those buildings. That's true and I hope that in some time these ideas will have resonance in China. You're right that at the moment they don't and China is enormously increasing its production of animals through this industrialized production. But I'm very keen for these ideas to become global
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